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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Gary Edward Keillor
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Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.
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A good friend is a person who thinks you're one of the good eggs, even if he knows you're a little cracked.
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Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus.
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I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
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I think that you are only obliged to be a humorist from the age of 18 until you turn 30. Past the age of 30 I don't think there is any obligation to be clever at all.
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You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
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Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
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